The Truth about Gun Control (Encounter Books, 2013). Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question in the American gun-control debate. Animated video featuring a section
of the book. 4 minutes.

A Conspiracy
Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Affordable Care Act (Palgrave MacMillan). The legal scholars who fought and defeated the unconstitutional power grab.

Firearms Law & the Second Amendment; Regulation, Rights, and
Policy (Aspen Publishers 2012). The first law
school textbook on the Second Amendment.
Buy from Amazon.
Publisher webpage for book.
Authors' website
for book; includes Table of Contents, and Preface.

Short articles

Don Kates. Entry about a founding father of modern Second Amendment scholarship, in Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. Don passed away on Nov. 1, 2016.

In the Courts

Wrenn v. District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit). Amicus brief of legal historians explains that peaceable carrying of arms was lawful in the American colonies, in the Early Republic, and in the vast majority of the United States through 1900.

Sheriffs' reply brief in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. May 29, 2015. Governor Hickenlooper's arguments in favor of the magazine ban demonstrate its unconstitutionality.

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